Today at 4PM, an important datacenter bill will be in a Georgia Senate Committee.
That’s the Senate Committee on Regulated Industries and Utilities, and GA SB 34, to prohibit electric bills of commercial data centers from being passed on to other customers.
Even if you are in favor of that datacenter, this bill is to your advantage, so you don’t end up paying higher electric rates.
![[Datacenter electricity bill SB 34 in GA Senate Committee, today 4 PM 2026-02-24]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-24--datacenter-power-ga-sb-34-senate-committee/many.jpg)
Datacenter electricity bill SB 34 in GA Senate Committee, today 4 PM 2026-02-24
You may recall that the last time this bill was heard by this committee, Senator Carden Summers tried to water it down.
Sen. Summers represents Irwinville, where a datacenter is planned, with a special exception request to be heard at an Irwin County Planning Commission in Ocilla next Thursday, February 26, 2026.
His contact information: (404) 656-9224, carden.summers@senate.ga.gov.
His District 13 includes all of Ben Hill, Irwin, Berrien, Tift, Worth, Turner, and Crisp Counties, and part of Coffee County.
If you are not in District 13, to find your legislators you can type in your ZIP code here:
http://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/
Or follow this QR code for a handy Sierra Club form:
![[Call on your county commissioners to ensure data centers are GOOD NEIGHBORS! Call on your state legislators to vote YES on SB 34!, 2026-02-17 --Amy Sharma, Science for Georgia]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-24--datacenter-power-ga-sb-34-senate-committee/Data-Centers--Valdosta-0033.jpg)
Call on your county commissioners to ensure data centers are GOOD NEIGHBORS! Call on your state legislators to vote YES on SB 34!, 2026-02-17 –Amy Sharma, Science for Georgia
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After last year’s elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission, the lame duck members approved a 10,000 megawatt Georgia Power expansion plan for datacenters. More megawatts means more power generation, including a natural gas pipeline expansion and more gas power plants using more cooling water.
Georgia Power now promises a rate increase halt for three years. Yet datacenters claim they will be around for 15 years or more. SB 34 is needed.
The text of SB 34 is in that previous post.
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Sen. Carden Summers, 2026-02-12 –GA Senate Committee on Regulated Industries and Utilities
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